Improvement in machines for cutting webbing



I l l i l l UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM A. RICE, OF BRISTOL, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR CUTTING WEBBING.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,616, dated J une 3, 1873; application led i September 28, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. RICE, of Bristol, inY the county of Grafton and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and Improved Machine for Cutting Webbing, of which the following is a specification My invention consists of a shea-rs for cutting webbing mounted on a stand with one blade fixed and the other movable, and worked by a foot motion, the stationary blade being provided with small nicks across the edge to prevent the webbing from slipping, the movable blade being held against the stationary one by an elastic washer surrounding the pivotbolt, and compressed against the blade by it.

Figure l is a front elevation of my improved machine, and Fig. 2 is partly a plan view and partly a horizontal section.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents the permanent jaw of the machine. It is supported with the edge upward on standards B, rising up from a table, C, and has nicks D across the edge at short distances apart to prevent the articles to be cut from slipping along it when the movable blade comes down upon them. E is the movable blade. It is pivoted to the stationary one at F, in the usual way, and has besides an elas tic washer, G, on its pivot, to. be compressed by the nut so as to bind the two blades together with considerable power, and yet not so as to cause them to grind each other, as when fastened with unyielding devices, parlittlc too tight. will keep the edges together along the whole length of the blades, whether they be exactly straight or exactly in line or not, which cannot be done by unyielding devices. The blade E is connected to a foot-treadle, H, by a conto it for raising it. K is a rail or bar above the place for holding the webbing to be presented to the shears with a scale, also a sliding block, L, with a clamp-screw to be used cut from slipping, substantially as specified.

v WILLIAM A. RIOE.

Witnesses:

LEwIs W. FLING, GEO. T. CEAWFQRD.

ticularly if they happen to be screwed up a""` Moreover this elastic washer necting-rod, I, to be forced downward by the v foot ofthe operator, and a spring, I, is applied for gaging the goods for cutting them the re- Y 2. Shears-for cutting webbing and other substances, with one ot' the blades provided v with nicks D to prevent the substance being` 

